Are you kidding me with that final scene? The rom-com run, sealing things between Roy Kent and AFC Richmond?!
Love it, just love it.
Music, scenes paired to lyrics, the injury, the four of them standing there as the camera pulls back... perfect!
On another note: not sure how to feel if the Bantr subplot leads to where it seems to be leading..
Perfection. A beautiful reminder that football is the beautiful game.
Roy Kent! Roy Kent!
He's here! He's there!
He's every f****** where!
Didn't like the Episode - they went overboard with the cheesiness
Reba McEntire!!! the best of the season so far and thank goodness for that, i was nostalgic for the feeling i got watching season 1
So the whole banter app texting arc, is that going to end up with Rebecca has been flirting with Ted?
[7.4/10] I’m such a fan of Nate as a character. In a show full of strong, over-the-top personalities, he’s a meek and retiring sort of guy, and that makes him endearing. It also makes him sympathetic when he gets brushed off by hostesses, laughed at for thinking he’s a big dog by his head coach, and denied a Nespresso by his team’s head of marketing. You can’t help but feel for the guy when it seems like the world ignores or denies him at every turn.
So it’s heartening as hell when Keely and Rebecca take him under their wings and teach him to assert himself. The payoff, with his “You’re Nate Fucking Shelley” and spitting on the mirror to hype himself and get his parents the window table at their favorite restaurant, is uplifting in a way I didn’t necessarily expect. As with his talent being recognized to where he’s promoted to coach, it’s nice to see the man get a win. And I’m just as intrigued by the storm on the horizon where just as he finds a new gear as a leader, Ted brings in Roy who seems poised to steal his thunder.
And I’ll say again, I’m not Roy’s biggest fan. I think he outlived his usefulness after the end of the first season, so bringing him back as a coach feels too easy and cheesy to me. We just did a thing where Keeley had to talk him into being a pundit, and now they’re undoing it because he can’t be away from the game? Why did we have that whole mini-arc then? What a waste of time if they were just going to bring him onto the coaching staff anyway. Plus they’ve never really set up that punditry wouldn’t be enough, and he’d need to be closer to the action. Sure, he coached his niece’s team, and that works as groundwork for his move back to the pitch, but why did we need the pundit job in between?
I do appreciate how he helps Isaac get over his frustration by getting out of his head. The notion of playing a pick-up game and remembering that it’s just that -- a game, is a good beat. The montage of Isaac horsing around is fun, and the way it loosens him up and helps the team at least shows why Roy might be good...at solving one particular problem.
The sequence of him racing to the stadium is worth a laugh, though. I get tired of Roy’s caricaturedness, but it works in a broadly comic setting like bribing taxis and pedicabs to get you to a soccer game. Likewise, a few of the romcom references went over my head, but approving references to the likes of When Harry Met Sally and Bridget Jones Diary clicked well, and the show’s broad-based approach to integrating them gave this one some extra flavor.
Otherwise, the business between Higgins and his wife is truly wholesome and low key boost to the episode. And while I can appreciate Rebecca’s teen-like fretting over what to say to her would-be boyfriend on the dating app, I really hope that they don’t have it be Ted on the other end. It’s too obvious and too much. But we’ll cross that bridge if we come to it.
Overall, yay for Nate, meh to Roy, and a dignified tip of the hat to most everything else.
This episode was really romantic, with all aspects, even roy's love of the game in the end shot
That funny 4th wall break to the audience with random couple telling their candid love story was so much like Kal Ho Na Ho
Why does the kebab place show the pictures of famous people including Roy Kent on the side facing the kitchen. instead of facing it out where the customers can see it…?
Wow what an episode! The best so far. Got me emotional
Great episode. I don't know why tho but I've slowly been growing to dislike Nate this season. He's less endearing more red flaggy as time has progressed
This one has been pretty much prefect.
Saw some folks slagging off the "rom-communism" bit, and I honestly think people have to stop messing about on their phones while watching TV. Ted's been flailing the whole season, his inability/unwillingness to deal with his baggage catching up with him in a big way. By this point, it's really starting to interfere with his capacity to perform at work. Case in point: his charming schtick not hitting home in quite the same way (both for us and for the other characters on the show), because his heart's not all the way in it anymore. Ted reaching out for help from all the sources except the one he actually needs help from? Also intentional on the writers' part.
It's not like there aren't things about this season that aren't working quite as well as other parts, but it feels a bit unfair to start dragging the show if you're not going to be paying attention to what's actually happening on it.
Another great episode. This season is finding its form and I love it. Can’t get enough of this show.
Using British rom-com cliches as the foundation (e.g., cheesy quotable lines from Notting Hill, "we are late" car ride, and period pop songs), this episode reminds us why we fell in love with Ted Lasso on season 1.
Roy Kent is one of the very best comedy series characters and this episode is all about him. I just want to hug this episode.
Also notable is very effective growth arc for Nate Shelley. His recent outbursts are largely set aside for this arc, but the first scene where Nate's suggestion is politely dismissed and the last shot of Nate standing next to Roy suggest his insecurity and pressure to succeed boiling up.
Less successful is suggestive editing of Ted Lasso blind date texting Hannah Waddingham. Please let it be a red herring!
This show just gets better and better, and this episode is particular was absolutely tremendous. Loved it !
Kudos for Roy, he's clearly the MVP of this season, but I have no idea what are they doing with Nate. First three episodes he's acting like a jerk, now he's bashed for a totally unrelated thing and I'm supposed to empathyze with him. It works only because it's like an arc continuation from the first season, but I have no clue what did they do to him in the first three eps, and just when I think we are past that, moreover, it's like it never even happened, there's a look on his face at the very end, the look of being benched again and his newfound self-confidence disappearing in a second, and God, I just hope he and Roy won't go face to face. Please God, no. It's already a big enough pain that Ted might not go to therapy to the Doctor until the end of the season.
roy kent back in richmond as he should be and yes its over dramatized or what not but i love it.
A few back to back GREAT episodes and this just caps it off. One of the best, if not the best Lasso episodes so far. Even Keeley was good (and she never is).
When I had heard that Goldstein had won an Emmy for Ted Lasso, I was a little surprised. Not that he's a bad actor (far from it) but his portrayal of Kent, has always been generally similar - but in Season 2 his character has grown so much and this caps it off. Every little thing Kent does in this episode is fantastic - especially the last moments of him staring out onto the pitch, accepting his new career. I'm looking to the interactions between Kent and Tartt, Kent and Beard and Kent and Shelley. Heck, even Kent and Doc. A great episode.
The season hasn't been great so far, and has revealed how huge the drop-off is whenever we're away from the coaches' office (Ted, Beard, Nate, Higgins).
The whole Roy thing has been utterly tedious all season and he's a boring character with pretty poor acting. The football action scenes have lost the realism that made them so unique last season.
But this episode was a lot of fun, and the ending was lovely. Not sure what that fourth wall breaking was all about though.
Couching the show's cheeriness in rom-com tropes is very fun (and shrewd, as this episode's arc might seem too smooth or cheesy even for itself otherwise), especially when it comes to Ted and Roy transposing classic lines to football stuff.
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I love this show so much
ROY KENT’S BACK AT RICHMOND!!!!! I loved this episode so much and I really hope Richmond gets a solid win under their belt with this match that just started. When Ted straight up laughed at Nathan being assertive, I was dying laughing. I’ve never seen Ted be that mean to someone. Speaking of Nathan, I really enjoyed seeing Nathan’s little character arc this episode, with him finding his own way to be more assertive and not just be complacent with other people, with him getting the window table to eat with his family at the restaurant. That scene with Nathan talking to himself in the mirror to try to amp himself up was fantastic. I was rooting so much for Nathan to succeed and I’m glad it paid off. Keeley and later on Rebecca helping Nathan was really sweet, Keeley this season, and last too has always been helping the team with their issues in her own way, being a great shoulder to rely on. And about Rebecca, I’m so happy she is finding love again, though after this episode cut to Ted smiling at his phone texting, I’m really worried that Ted and Rebecca are unknowingly texting each other on that Bantar dating app. Rebecca and Ted’s relationship works way better as friends who look out for and can relate to each other. I really hope this season doesn’t tarnish that dynamic. I’m so glad Roy Kent’s back at Richmond as a Coach now, it’s been pretty clear throughout this season that Roy still has an attachment to playing soccer with the Richmond boys, and still wants that connection to soccer, hence why he became a pundit, but now Roy is back in the locker rooms, talking and hanging out with the team. That speech Roy gave about how you can’t really know how a team will perform or push them to win unless you're actually on the field and in the locker rooms with them was really powerful, showing just how much being a soccer player meant to Roy Kent, beyond just scoring goals. Ted still clearly has an aversion to therapy because of how couple’s therapy ended up with Ted being pushed away from his family, every time Dr. Sharon suggests helping Ted constantly says he’s fine even though Sharon has consistently been successful with her patients, hopefully this issue Ted has is put more to the forefront, rather than being subtly shown. Leslie and his wife were really cute when the episode showed a shot of them walking together, linking hands.
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And we're finally back in form! After what I thought were a few stagnant, meandering weeks, the show is finally getting back to what made it great. The progression of these characters through the lens of football, while keeping the heartwarming subject matter we all know and love. I hope it stays at this calibre for the rest of the season, and that we start to squeak out what is obviously troubling Ted deep down. Great great episode.